Macrobiotic Life

Previous day last meal was at 17:00, then I took high speed longer walk (hara walking) in the forest, got to sleep at 21:30 (5 and 1/2 hours after the meal). I was satisfied with the last meal maybe because I used 2 spoons of oil. I fried bread in the oil, added shoyu and ended with fresh chinese cabbage – complete satisfaction and lot of energy and no sweet cravings. I try to eat my last meals like this. End at 17pm and go to sleep around 21 pm and get up earlier, like 5 – 6 am. In this way I will not overeat at night and I can control my sweet cravings through the day much easier than at night. So if I will go sleep earlier I will withhold some portion of the sweets. And it seems to me much healthier time setup – to go sleep early and get up early. I was reading about the history of the Maya civilization and there was daily regime described in the book – they got up at 4 am and immediately went to work on the corn fields until around 14-15 pm. Then they ate their 2 main foods and went to sleep at 20 pm.

6:30 get up
8:00 – 8:50 yesterday pressure cooked oat + rice; boiled carrot + broccoli
11:05 – 13:05 the same grains + little shoyu + little sesame oil + dandelion, chives and daisy; 1 teaspoon of natto; fried bread in 1 spoon of oil and 1 tablespoon of shoyu + lot of raw chinese cabbage; roasted seeds + barley malt (3-5 tablespoons) well chewed – not a good day with sweets again but i am going to physicaly work a lot now, so at least I will compensate for this a little
physical work around the house (old windows demolition)
17:20 – 18:50 miso soup – carrot, parsley, onion, wakame, sunflower oil; lot of freshly pressure cooked brown rice + barley + lentils (soaked overnight)
19:40 I have sweet cravings, but I am sleepy, so I can manage it by telling myself, that I will rather go to sleep than to eat anything.
22:00 sleep

7:00 get up
9:00 – 9:15 stretching
9:15 – 9:45 freshly pressure cooked 50% rice + 50% emmer grain, boiled carrot and parsley, chewed 50-100x, proper sitting with straight spine (you can feel the full stomach much quicker in the straight position, when sitting hunched you will usually overeat, but the straight spine has many other positive effects ofcourse)
11:50 – 12:30 the same
4km bike trip to the forest, bare foot training chi kung and eye stretching (Bate’s method)
15:15 – 16:15 same grains, boiled cabbage with miso and wild plants (herbs)
17:45 small cup of freshly cooked red beans with kombu (1 hour 40 mins – soaked overnight)
19:25 – 21:00 same grains; boiled carrot; oil fried bread with 3 day pickles + shoyu + little water; white flour pastas + barley malt; almonds + barley malt; kuzu+shoyu drink to compensate my yin overtake

Listening to a new music (to me) The Bouncing Souls – very speedy funny style. I am dancing all over the flat till midnight I have also started to get interested in the natural house building processes. I want to learn some techniques how to build simple cheape houses. I am very interested in the traditional Japanese building techniques, but it will be really hard to get to know someone who can really make old tatamis and old Japanese houses. But after watching samurai DVD series I fell in love with their houses simplicity and effectivity. I have also read, that Tatami does smell very nicely, because it’s made from the rice straw – imagine sleeping in the straw and the beatiful smell. I am thinking about trying to make my own tatami from the writings I have read about it. It will be just for fun, at least the smell of fresh strow will be there
I got also offer to live or spend some time in the Russia beginning alternative village (according to the Anastasia dreams). There are people of Czechs, Russia and Srbia and their main aim is Love in the Nature – what could be better. Yeah, one thing is missing from our macrobiotic view – they are mostly vegetarians, but still eating sugar and other more extreme yin/yang energies. They would be much more connected with the Nature line if implementing macrobiotic lifestyle (eating habits). I the past I was finding big problems with living in such a community where people are not eating macrobiotics. But the more I chew and more I am humble, I can imagine living anywhere, as long as I could cook my macrobiotic meal there and be happy with some small personal space (house).
I am on the crossroads in my Life now. I have many great options what to do and where to move now. One is the Russia village, another is Holland Kushi Institute, another is macrobiotic community in the sounce France and another new one is to work as a Security man in the UK. The last one is not spiritual, it’s just simple money making opportunity. The job is very easy, good for meditative people, because all you do is walk and watch at some places like supermarkets, construction places etc. And the earning is nice for this simple job – it’s 6 pounds per hour. The living costs there would be 200 – 400. So with the 10 hour shift, the real net income would be from 800 – 1000, which is quite nice if you consider the type of the job. I feel I will need money in the future to start my living in the nature, to build my simple cheap house (cob, wood, bamboo – i don’t know yet) and to buy the land place, or I can use our land that my mother inherited, but I don’t see it as the perfect dream place, it would be the last option. I don’t need too much money for the house, I imagine maximum of $35.000 to get me builded nice low energy natural house. But still I need these money at least. I am not sure which path to choose now, but I feel I don’t need the money now and I will concentrate on experiences and money will come somehow later. My new dream, growing inside me and completely strange to my computer professional life is to be “Natural House builder”. To learn some techniques (my dream one is Traditional Japanese Houses) and to get better and better, to study, to travel and learn from other people and work hard in the sunny nature, not inside some building while sitting before computer. It’s my BIG dream now. I am more moving from the computer and closed buildings to the outside Nature beautiful world and feeling very happy there, something I have never felt before. It all began with my intensive rice chewing and humble asking the Nature for my new life direction. And since then (3 months before), I started to really live and my life changed by a big amount – complete 180 degree turn for somebody who was used to sit before computer and earn money with building spammy SEO sites.
Thank you mother Nature for everything